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Native Instruments Cremona Quartet: A Work of Art

Kremona-Quartet-A-Work-Of-Art

Native Instruments Cremona Quartet: A Work Of Art. A virtual instrument that aims to capture the sound and performance of a world-class string quartet. It is designed to work with Native Instruments’ Kontakt player and comes with four different instruments – two violins, a viola, and a cello – each with its unique timbre and […]

Ryuichi Sakamoto Dies at 71

Ryuichi Sakamoto Dies at 71

Ryuichi Sakamoto dies at 71. He was a Japanese musician, composer, and actor, and passed away today at the age of 71 after battling cancer for several years. Sakamoto was a pioneering figure in the world of music, known for his innovative and genre-defying style that blended classical, jazz, and electronic elements. Sakamoto began his […]

VPS Avenger : A Bold Alternative To Nexus

VPS Avenger : A Bold Alternative To Nexus

VPS Avenger is A bold alternative To Nexus. VPS Avenger by Vengeance is a feature-packed virtual synthesizer plugin that has garnered a lot of attention among music producers. In this review, we’ll examine how this synthesizer sounds and performs in practice. Let’s have a look at whether the VPS Avenger is a bold alternative to […]

XLN Audio’s XO: Control Of Your Beat-making!

XLN Audio's XO: Control Of Your Beat-making!

XLN Audio’s XO: Control Of Your Beatmaking! XLN Audio‘s XO Plugin is a game-changer in drum replacement and humanization tools. With its advanced features and intuitive design, this plugin organizes all your drum and percussion samples, gives you the ability to program your beats, and exports your results to your favorite DAW. XLN Audio’s XO: […]

Dave Smith: A Tribute to the Father of MIDI

Dave Smith A Tribute to the Father of MIDI

Dave Smith: A Tribute to the Father of MIDI. To me, there has been no more important technology that transformed my life than MIDI. Dave Smith was a genius level inventor who changed my creative world and millions of others with his invention of MIDI. My First “Real Keyboard” Dave Smith’s company, Sequential Circuits, built […]

Vangelis: The Passing of My Musical Inspiration

Vangelis-The-Passing-of-My-Musical-Inspiration

Of all of the artists that have influenced me, none have loomed larger than Vangelis, the passing of my musical inspiration. I just learned of his passing today, at 79 years old. I am absolutely gutted. Vangelis meant the world to me and has so incredibly influenced my music and the soundtrack/compositional style that I […]

A Googly-Eyed Player Piano

A Googly-Eyed Transparent Player Piano

The incredibly inventive engineer Mark Rober built Chopstix, a A Googly-Eyed Player Piano self-playing, transparent piano with googly eyes and a digital screen that is able to speak English through a MIDI controller. Fellow YouTuber Buddy Sanderson of 3Blue1Brown explained how Chopstix is able to speak. The signals from speech can be visualized with a waveform, …If you zoom in on a little window […]